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Description
We propose to address misinformation, disinformation, and algorithmic discrimination by
developing an expansive interdisciplinary approach to critical data studies and data literacy. Our
project will bring together groups that have been largely working in parallel, non-intersecting
tracks: social-justice-oriented research and pedagogy in the arts and humanities and similarly
focused computational work; Indigenous AI and intersectional technology developers; arts-based
data literacy efforts and data science curricular development. Working together, we will:
? create mixed qualitative-quantitative tools to diagnose how misinformation and
disinformation spreads;
? document how current forms of machine learning and recommender systems discriminate
and build experimental methods for human-machine learning;
? build new data literacies by expanding whose voices matter and how they do through
community-led data centers, public night schools and exhibitions, intersectional
technology development workshops, and media projects to deter white nationalist
radicalization;
? mainstream these approaches through media production, courses, small research grants,
and workshops.
This holistic approach is necessary because misinformation, disinformation, and algorithmic
discrimination threaten so many aspects of public knowledge and higher education. By polluting
the public sphere and amplifying conspiratorial thinking, they cut the threads entwining diverse
cultures into a civilly engaged society. By automating discrimination through proprietary
algorithms, they threaten to make the future repeat—rather than learn from—past mistakes; they
jeopardize public knowledge by privatizing data and normalizing surveillance. To take on these
fundamental challenges to truth, history, and knowledge, we therefore propose an approach that
brings rich humanistic thinking about learning, history, narrative, and critique to bear on our
data-filled world.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 7/1/22 → 8/31/24 |
Funding
- Simon Fraser University: $501,393.00
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